TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Effect of Urban Development Plans on the City’s Old Context
AU - Kalantari, Sedigheh AU - Huang, Yaping 
JO  - Environmental Research Journal
VL  - 13
IS  - 2
SP  - 64
EP  - 72
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1994-5396
DO  - erj.2019.64.72
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=erj.2019.64.72
KW  - Urban development plan
KW  -old context
KW  -Isfahan
AB  - It is about fifty years that thecomprehensive
anddetailed plans have been the directing instrument and
documents for Iranian citiesspatial development; and the
old context of cities not only became agree or adapted
with the prevalence of modern patterns and current
urbanism impression of them but also this issueimpaired
the physical-structural system of the old context and the
social and cultural structure of it became unsteady as a
consequence. It applied specially about the famous and
ancient cities in Iran for its important role in Iran urban
system net. The historic core of Isfahan encompasses a
large number of valuable buildings and monuments. One
of Isfahan urban context features is the water
transformation channels that are called as “Madi” which
antiquity of this element refers to the ages before Islam.
So, this study tries not only to mention the value of such
a city element that was very considerable in the past but
also evaluate the effects of urban development plans
on them. The performed studies are based on
descriptive-analytic method and comparative approach.
The documentary, library and field interpretationhave
been used for information gathering.
ER  -